Today we explored the Little Cranberry lake area. It was a little overcast when we began our hike, but happily no wind and not a drop of rain.
*a note of reminder for the photos in my blog. If you click on or tap to enlarge the photos they will be clearer.
A nice map is at the trailhead kiosk, we brought our own since the Anacortes Community Forest lands "ACFL can be quite a maze. Thankfully the trails are marked by trail number, so if you have a map you can navigate your way through pretty well. My husband was hoping that on this hike we would find connector trails to Heart Lake, so that we could make a longer day's hiking on another day and really explore the area. We did find just such a trail, so now we can combine some great trails together in one day's hike.
Just as we began our hike I looked down and saw this tooth on the ground. I wonder who or what left it there. hmmmm
We took our first turn of the day, you can see the trail sign on the tree.
I loved this curved tree along the trail.
Heart rock found along the trail ❤
A Wolf warning sign on this post, there is a game farm nearby and "sometimes" apparently the Wolves escape.
Tiny mushrooms were all along the trail today.
We walked beside a very big rock.
A Madrona tree❤
We decided to stop and take a snack break at this nice mossy area.
I couldn't get over how green the moss was on this rock.
I took a micro photo of the moss on the rock in the above photo, doesn't it look interesting!?
Turkey tails
The reflections on the lake were spectacular today.
Mr, and Mrs. Pack enjoying their view of Little Cranberry lake. We had a nice food break here also.
As we made our way around the lake, we came to where a fire had burned in August of 2016.
It looked as if most of the fire was in the undergrowth.
Looking across the lake, where we had come from. Again more wonderful lake reflections.
This looked to be a great fisherman's log, can't you just picture someone walking out to the end of this fallen tree to get just that perfect spot.
As we had walked along the other side of the lake, we had seen some Swans on the lake and hoped to get close to them when we got to this end of the trail. We found a nice boardwalk and viewing area to look at them. They were there, but my camera doesn't zoom well so all I have to show in the photo are some tiny blurry Swans. You can enlarge the photos to see them, but that really doesn't help much. See if you can spot all three of them. Sorry. Anyway....they were just the perfect end to our hike.
Relive video of our route:
Garmin stats:
total miles hiked - 7.15
total ascent - 1027 feet
